Family ties spice up athletics: Kenyan families now showing the world how it is done both on the road and track

COMBO-ATHLETICS-MARATHON-PARIS (COMBO) This combination of pictures created on April 09, 2017 shows Kenya's Prurity Rionoripo (L) and her husband Kenya's Paul Lonyangata crossing the finish line to win the 41st Paris Marathon in Paris on April 9, 2017. Kenya's Paul Lonyangata won the 41st Paris marathon on Sunday with his wife Purity Rionoripo making it a memorable family day out in the French capital with success in the women's race. Lonyangata recorded his biggest career win in a time of two hours six minutes and 10 seconds. With Paris bathed in spring sunshine Rionoripo made it a redletter day for the couple, the 23-year-old setting a new record time of 2hr 20min 50sec to smash her personal best by almost four minutes. / AFP PHOTO / Eric FEFERBERG

It can only happen in Kenyan athletics.

Barely 48 hours after the country was left reeling in shock following the devastating news that the A sample of Olympic women marathon champion, Jemimah Jelagat Sumgong had tested positive for EPO, the mercurial Kenyan distance runners conjured a fairy tale of Romeo and Juliet proportions.